Michael Robotham Quotes

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.

As much as I dream, I have nightmares.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.

Nightmares are releases.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.